He's not Maurice Jarre, he's just a very naughty student. And Facebook's ToS made nonsensical...
...by a robot! (Anodyne Swift will be returning to the world of blogging later today, after an extended sojourn, with some twaddle or other about a dictatorial clock. Cheers for the queries. Edit: Ah, it's arrived: http://anodyneswift.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/what-time-is-the-revolution/)
'A WIKIPEDIA hoax by a 22-year-old Dublin student resulted in a fake quote being published in newspaper obituaries around the world. The quote was attributed to French composer Maurice Jarre who died at the end of March. It was posted on the online encyclopedia shortly after his death and later appeared in obituaries published in the Guardian, the London Independent, on the BBC Music Magazine website and in Indian and Australian newspapers.
“One could say my life itself has been one long soundtrack. Music was my life, music brought me to life, and music is how I will be remembered long after I leave this life. When I die there will be a final waltz playing in my head, that only I can hear,” Jarre was quoted as saying.
However, these words were not uttered by the Oscar-winning composer but written by Shane Fitzgerald, a final-year undergraduate student studying sociology and economics at University College Dublin. Mr Fitzgerald said he placed the quote on the website as an experiment when doing research on globalisation.' - More here: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0506/1224245992919.html
Tut. And as if the Twitter fakes (http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/article2225005.ece) weren't bad enough, Facebook is now the target for misguided researchers at the IRML:
"Researchers are giving a robot its own Facebook profile page to help foster meaningful relationships with people. The page will be populated with interactions the robot has with people as well as photos of the time it spends in human company. Its creators hope that embedding it in a social web will give rise to a sustainable friendship can grow up between man and machine."
Would you like to see the robot in question?
Good grief.
More here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8034190.stm
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Edit: And cheers to folks for sending me links regarding the current Big Bad Google story. Although I'm keeping tabs on the antitrust investigations, I tend to concur with Mike Magee's overall assessment (http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/42326/140/), and would go further: it's going to be a fudge.
Meanwhile, interest in Wolfram (previously covered here: http://community.livejournal.com/anti_gravitas/241882.html) continues to grow beyond the more au fait sectors of the blogosphere. Even the Beeb have belatedly started sitting up and taking notice:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/05/searching_for_another_google.html
Early days yet, mind...
'A WIKIPEDIA hoax by a 22-year-old Dublin student resulted in a fake quote being published in newspaper obituaries around the world. The quote was attributed to French composer Maurice Jarre who died at the end of March. It was posted on the online encyclopedia shortly after his death and later appeared in obituaries published in the Guardian, the London Independent, on the BBC Music Magazine website and in Indian and Australian newspapers.
“One could say my life itself has been one long soundtrack. Music was my life, music brought me to life, and music is how I will be remembered long after I leave this life. When I die there will be a final waltz playing in my head, that only I can hear,” Jarre was quoted as saying.
However, these words were not uttered by the Oscar-winning composer but written by Shane Fitzgerald, a final-year undergraduate student studying sociology and economics at University College Dublin. Mr Fitzgerald said he placed the quote on the website as an experiment when doing research on globalisation.' - More here: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0506/1224245992919.html
Tut. And as if the Twitter fakes (http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/article2225005.ece) weren't bad enough, Facebook is now the target for misguided researchers at the IRML:
"Researchers are giving a robot its own Facebook profile page to help foster meaningful relationships with people. The page will be populated with interactions the robot has with people as well as photos of the time it spends in human company. Its creators hope that embedding it in a social web will give rise to a sustainable friendship can grow up between man and machine."
Would you like to see the robot in question?
Good grief.
More here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8034190.stm
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Edit: And cheers to folks for sending me links regarding the current Big Bad Google story. Although I'm keeping tabs on the antitrust investigations, I tend to concur with Mike Magee's overall assessment (http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/42326/140/), and would go further: it's going to be a fudge.
Meanwhile, interest in Wolfram (previously covered here: http://community.livejournal.com/anti_gravitas/241882.html) continues to grow beyond the more au fait sectors of the blogosphere. Even the Beeb have belatedly started sitting up and taking notice:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/05/searching_for_another_google.html
Early days yet, mind...